Politics & Government - 10 September 2007

And why?

2007-09-10 11:33:22 · 4 answers · asked by Livia L 1 in Politics

2007-09-10 11:31:20 · 17 answers · asked by odin p 1 in Other - Politics & Government

I know the harrier had limitations, but is the JSF really all singing and dancing? Will the new carriers support CTOL, as VTOL used far too much fuel?

2007-09-10 11:30:33 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2007-09-10 11:25:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

in 1992 i recieved an other than honorable discharge from the u.s. navy. i think it was classified as a(re4) or something similar to that. it was for smoking pot! is there any way to get this thing upraded to an honorable discharge and get all vetran's benefits?

2007-09-10 11:24:43 · 7 answers · asked by shawn L 1 in Military

Does international law have anything to say about this, or is it up to the law of the individual countries? Who became the owners of the land, for example, which was abandoned in Eastern Europe during the mass fleeing of people at the end of WWII? Did any of these countries ever recognize that the refugees had property ownership rights?

2007-09-10 11:23:55 · 4 answers · asked by Pascha 7 in International Organizations

Little johnny or k rudd
Please, sensible answers only

2007-09-10 11:05:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2007-09-10 11:04:59 · 6 answers · asked by lex1979x 3 in Military

the fourteenth amendment,was not meant for this kind of abuse,why are we as american citizens letting this happen?and what are we as americans going to do about it?now is the time to start are own rallys

2007-09-10 11:00:57 · 15 answers · asked by jazzfan 1 in Immigration

pretty catchy! What do you think?

2007-09-10 10:57:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Why were American troops allowed to put a Christmas tree up in the street? How insulting is that in a Muslim country?
And those Marine recruiters, have they no shame? What do they feel like when the kids they pick up off the street die?

2007-09-10 10:56:50 · 14 answers · asked by futuretopgun101 5 in Military

Does anyone have any idea where i might find and buy a Nazi German Officer Costume or Uniform? I'm trying to make a movie on the frightening oppression inflicted by the SS during World War II. but i've been looking and it seems as though those costumes of uniforms are taboo. please help.
Mr. Brightside

2007-09-10 10:55:01 · 4 answers · asked by Mr. Brightside 3 in Military

My friend is seeing a 29 year old man and i think she is having sex with him. I heard you need parental consent in order for it too be legal. But i have also heard that no consent is needed.

2007-09-10 10:53:44 · 21 answers · asked by just wondering 1 in Law & Ethics

Whenever I see images of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Katherine Harris and other minions of, or apologists for, the corrupt, inept, mendacious and venal Bush dictatorship, I am immediately reminded of this line from John Carpenter’s classic horror movie Halloween: “What is living behind [their] eyes is purely and simply evil.”

2007-09-10 10:50:39 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

I'm interested in answers from people who don't bring up ethics even though they may be similar in scope.

2007-09-10 10:49:47 · 19 answers · asked by Lizbiz 5 in Civic Participation

Why do we have to pay this? Most of us pay for digital viewing anyway. And when they shut down analogue tv, will we still be expected to pay for a 'license'?

2007-09-10 10:49:12 · 34 answers · asked by wonkyfella 5 in Law & Ethics

Financial, domestic or anything else

2007-09-10 10:48:01 · 13 answers · asked by kl_the_writer 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-09-10 10:47:59 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

I know this is morally wrong and I will never do it again..so here it goes.
I stole some money from my cash drawer at work in order to help pay my rent and my tuition at school by conducting fraudulant transactions on my checkstand..totally over $400. It was out of desperation for I was facing the real possibility of livving on the streets.. Over a month later a rep from loss prevention confronted my in the boos's office and asked me questions..and presented me with evidence and logs of those transactions. I could not help it but admit my guilt, telling him everything over how i did it what i used the money for. I told him i'm am sorry and i am ready to face the consequences for my actions. I also agreed to pay back all the money I stole. I am currently suspended with pay. My question is: How likely is it I will lose my job and 2. If i am terminated, how difficult will it be to get another job and what can I do.

2007-09-10 10:47:42 · 10 answers · asked by ale961 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-09-10 10:47:40 · 6 answers · asked by Yahoo Answer Angel 6 in Other - Politics & Government

2007-09-10 10:46:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

We have taken down the government of another Sovereign nation (no argument that it was evil and corrupt) without a declaration of war from congress is this legal or have simply made it legal. Let's go back to the Constitution people.

2007-09-10 10:45:46 · 9 answers · asked by Ethan M 5 in Politics

if i dont agree with this war on terror, and want to use my rights as an american citizen to stop it however possible. Does it mean i hate my country?
what if i dont even support the troops? is that hating america?
is voting non republican hating america?
Do any republicans hate america?

2007-09-10 10:42:50 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-09-10 10:42:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2007-09-10 10:39:28 · 11 answers · asked by Jaclyn W 1 in Military

Oh, it’s a long, long while from September to September. This year, the anniversary falls, for the first time, on a Tuesday morning, and perhaps some or other cable network will re-present the events in real time — the first vague breaking news in an otherwise routine morning show, the follow-up item on the second plane, and the realization that something bigger was underway. If you make it vivid enough, the JFK/Princess Di factor will kick in: You’ll remember “where you were” when you “heard the news.” But it’s harder to recreate the peculiar mood at the end of the day, when the citizens of the superpower went to bed not knowing what they’d wake up to the following morning.

Six years on, most Americans are now pretty certain what they’ll wake up to in the morning: There’ll be a thwarted terrorist plot somewhere or other — last week, it was Germany. Occasionally, one will succeed somewhere or other, on the far horizon — in Bali, Istanbul, Madrid, London. But not many folks expect to switch on the TV this Tuesday morning, as they did that Tuesday morning, and see smoke billowing from Atlanta or Phoenix or Seattle. During the IRA’s 30-year campaign, the British grew accustomed (perhaps too easily accustomed) to waking up to the news either of some prominent person’s assassination or that a couple of gran’mas and some schoolkids had been blown apart in a shopping centre. It was a terrorist war in which terrorism was almost routine. But, in the six years since President Bush declared that America was in a “war on terror,” there has been in America no terrorism.

In theory, the administration ought to derive a political benefit from this: The president has “kept America safe.” But, in practice, the placidity of the domestic front diminishes the chosen rationale of the conflict: If a “war on terror” has no terror, who says there’s a war at all? That’s the argument of the Left — that it’s all a racket cooked up by the Bushitlerburton fascists to impose on America a permanent national-security state in which, for dark sinister reasons of his own, Dick Cheney is free to monitor your out-of-state phone calls all day long. Judging from the blithe expressions of commuters doing the shoeless shuffle through the security line at LAX and O’Hare, most Americans seem relatively content with a permanent national-security state. It’s a curious paradox: airports on permanent Orange Alert, and a citizenry on permanent …well, I’m not sure there’s a homeland-security color code for “Gaily Insouciant,” but, if there is, it’s probably a bland limpid pastel of some kind. Of course, if tomorrow there’s a big smoking hole where the Empire State Building used to be, we’ll be back to: “The president should have known! This proves the failure of his policies over the last six years! We need another all-star Commission filled with retired grandees!”

And that would be the relatively sane reaction. Have you seen that bumper sticker “9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB”? If you haven’t, go to a college town and cruise Main Street for a couple of minutes. It seems odd that a fascist regime which thinks nothing of killing thousands of people in a big landmark building in the center of the city hasn’t quietly offed some of these dissident professors — or at least the guy with the sticker-printing contract. Fearlessly, Robert Fisk of Britain’s Independent, the alleged dean of Middle East correspondents, has now crossed over to the truther side and written a piece headlined, “Even I Question The ‘Truth’ About 9/11.” According to a poll in May, 35-percent of Democrats believe that Bush knew about 9/11 in advance. Did Rumsfeld also know? Almost certainly. That’s why he went to his office as normal that today, because he knew in advance that the plane would slice through the Pentagon but come to a halt on the far side of the photocopier. That’s how well-planned it was, unlike Iraq.

Apparently, 39-percent of Democrats still believe Bush didn’t know in advance — or, at any rate, so they said in May. But I’m confident half of them will have joined Rosie O’Donnell on the melted steely knoll before the Iowa caucuses. If Iraq is another Vietnam, 9/11 is another Kennedy assassination. Were Bali, Madrid, and London also inside jobs by the Bush Gang? If so, it’s no wonder federal spending’s out of control.

And what of those for whom the events of six years ago were more than just conspiracy fodder? Last week the New York Times carried a story about the current state of the 9/11 lawsuits. Relatives of 42 of the dead are suing various parties for compensation, on the grounds that what happened that Tuesday morning should have been anticipated. The law firm Motley Rice, diversifying from its traditional lucrative class-action hunting grounds of tobacco, asbestos, and lead paint, is promising to put on the witness stand everybody who “allowed the events of 9/11 to happen.” And they mean everybody — American Airlines, United, Boeing, the airport authorities, the security firms — everybody, that is, except the guys who did it.

According to the Times, many of the bereaved are angry and determined that their loved one’s death should have meaning. Yet the meaning they’re after surely strikes our enemies not just as extremely odd but as one more reason why they’ll win. You launch an act of war, and the victims respond with a lawsuit against their own countrymen. But that’s the American way: Almost every news story boils down to somebody standing in front of a microphone and announcing that he’s retained counsel. Last week, it was Larry Craig. Next week, it’ll be the survivors of Ahmadinejad’s nuclear test in Westchester County. As Andrew McCarthy pointed out, a legalistic culture invariably misses the forest for the trees. Senator Craig should know that what matters is not whether an artful lawyer can get him off on a technicality but whether the public thinks he trawls for anonymous sex in public bathrooms. Likewise, those 9/11 families should know that, if you want your child’s death that morning to have meaning, what matters is not whether you hound Boeing into admitting liability but whether you insist that the movement that murdered your daughter is hunted down and the sustaining ideological virus that led thousands of others to dance up and down in the streets cheering her death is expunged from the earth.

In his pugnacious new book, Norman Podhoretz calls for redesignating this conflict as World War IV. Certainly, it would have been easier politically to frame the Iraq campaign as being a front in a fourth world war than as a necessary measure in an anti-terrorist campaign. Yet who knows? Perhaps we would still have mired ourselves in legalisms and conspiracies and the dismal curdled relativism of the Flight 93 memorial’s “crescent of embrace.” In the end, as Podhoretz says, if the war is to be fought at all, it will “have to be fought by the kind of people Americans now are.” On this sixth anniversary, as 9/11 retreats into history, many Americans see no war at all.

2007-09-10 10:37:52 · 19 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

It has become clear he knows everything. Would you give him a get out of jail card to testify about what he knows about campaign finances and the Democrats?

2007-09-10 10:37:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

Hypothetical situation: A man pulls a gun on a cop. The cop’s partner who the man doesn't see shoots and kills the man. Later it is determined that the man had no bullets in his gun. Does that make the partner a murderer? Of course not, the partner responded appropriately to a legitimate threat. The absence of bullets after the fact does not change the situation.

Does this hypothetical situation parallel the war in Iraq? Saddam said he had weapons of mass destruction, the world believed he did, the Democrats and Republicans believed him and voted to act to remove him. Then after we did we found no WMD's, he had no bullets in his gun so to speak. Does that mean it was wrong to go over there? Should we have just left at that point leaving Iraq in shambles for a new tyrant to take over? Even though many senators and congressman voted to respond to the threat in Iraq, should George W. Bush get all the blame? Should there be any blame, and if so who should share it?

2007-09-10 10:37:27 · 17 answers · asked by atomzer0 6 in Military

he's like THE come back to any problem conservatives have:

911 happens on your watch---Bill Clinton
Economy is in the shiet house --- Bill Clinton
Wars a total disaster--- Bill Clinton
Larry Craig is a gay Perv in public --- Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton --- Bill Clinton
Mexican Immagrants --- Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton is sooo last century, when are conservatives going to take responsibility, or at least blame someone new?

2007-09-10 10:37:19 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I thought all the "Big Oil" guys from Texas were corrupt Republicans befriending "Bush & Co."!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070910/ts_nm/un_iraq_trial_dc

2007-09-10 10:36:26 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics